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The English author and magistrate Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was one of the great novelists of the 18th century. His fiction, plays, essays, and legal pamphlets show he was a humane and witty man, with a passion for reform and justice. The English novel...

There are many ways, many forms, in which novelists attempt to give their readers what Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749) refers to as "a Representation, or, as Aristotle calls it, an Imitation of what really exists. . . ." Fielding is best remembered to...

There are many ways, many forms, in which novelists attempt to give their readers what Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749) refers to as "a Representation, or, as Aristotle calls it, an Imitation of what really exists...." Fielding is best remembered today...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Selected Bibliography Biography Cross, W. L. The History of Henry Fielding, 3 vols., 1918. Although written many years ago, this remains an indispensable work for the student of Fielding. It is not only indispensable; it is delightful. Wilbur L. Cross (1862...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Life And Background Early Life: Henry Fielding was born in 1707 at Sharpham Park in Somersetshire, and spent his boyhood on a farm at East Stour in Dorsetshire. His father, Edmund Fielding, was an army officer who later rose to the...